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and then he intended to make a few observations upon tlie general 

 and upon the educational value of physiological study. Of phy- 

 siological and anatomical works intended for the general public, 

 there were happily now a considerable number. Among those of 

 a popular character he might specify The Intellectual Observer., 

 The Popular Science Meview, The Natural History Review^ and 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History : the three lirst 

 of recent date, but the last a long established and still excellent 

 publication. The scientific societies publish so many proceedings 

 in octavo, with illustrations, that there did not exist the same ne- 

 cessity in England as on the Continent — a fact which their foreign 

 friends would do well to remember, while the physiologists of 

 England were free to acknowledge the many and valuable ser- 

 vices rendered by German and other Continental works. He 

 thought he ought, also, to mention American literary contributions, 

 and to specify The Smithsonian and The Philadelphian Jour- 

 nal of Science^ the French Annales des Sciences Naturelles^ and 

 the Wtirtzburg and Berlin Archives. Physiology and scientific 

 zoology had been expounded with singular clearness and accuracy 

 to the general public by Mr. Lewes ; and anatomy was largely 

 introduced into the pleasing fishermen's book, The Angler- Natu- 

 ralist^ by Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell. A short sketch, such as Mr. 

 Pennell's, of the economy of the Bird, would be a most valuable 

 addition to our ordinary ornithologies and oologies. He said 

 oologies, for even in the egg of the bird the special needs of the 

 forthcoming bird seemed to be more especially provided for than 

 in the eojofs of other families much hio^her in the scale. Passino^ 

 from works of general to works of more strictly and severely scien- 

 tific interest, he must observe that a high place was due to the 

 lectures of Professor Huxley on the Classification of Animals ; and 

 it spoke well for the enlightenment of the readers of the Medical 

 Times and of the Lancet that the editors of those journals had 

 felt it desirable to cater for their tastes by publishing those lec- 

 tures on pure science. Turning to works on Experimental Phy- 

 siology, he was reminded of vivisection ; a word which had been 

 rendered familiar to the ears of the public during the last few 

 weeks by the letters and discussions that had appeared in the Times 

 and other papers. Addressing himself to one of the questions it 

 suggests, he would ask — Is it possible that a want of humanity is 

 a common fault of physiologists ? He was not by any means so 



